Muscles look as if its skin and they have strips and lines. They are connected to bones by tendons. The parts of a muscle are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. There are over 800 muscles in the human body. The functions of muscles are producing movement, maintaing posture, stabilizing joints, and generating heat. Pumping blood throughout the body is one of the ways interact with the human body. Also there are muscle in our mouth that helps us swallow foods and drinks. Another muscle that interacts with the body is our eyes, which helps observe what is around us.

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